UK General Election - May 7th 2015 (The Official Election Day & Results Thread)

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I'm quite tired now.

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Goddamn americans.

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A trot today told me that I had a smug smile. lol.

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A note about rumours after the polls close: be really really careful about believing these, unless they come from a credible source. And even then don't treat as fact. A lot of false rumours get spread around early on election nights; quite why people bother I have no idea, but they do.

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Though the most genuinely useful one is the Con/Lab one as movement between those parties is so small.

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Oh they always know. They have to in order to request recounts (and that's another thing: parties are actually entitled to request a recount if they're on the edge of losing their deposit). After a while you learn how to read results of faces, but sometimes this can be deceptive, particularly if the winner is a right miserable bugger.

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A note about rumours after the polls close: be really really careful about believing these, unless they come from a credible source. And even then don't treat as fact. A lot of false rumours get spread around early on election nights; quite why people bother I have no idea, but they do.

Wasn't there one in 2005 where the BBC picked up some rumour that the Lib Dems had won a Birmingham seat which they actually ended up not being that close in?  I remember wondering afterwards if there'd been some sort of mix up with Yardley.

Birmingham Perry Barr, yes.

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I read on reddit that if parliament is "doubly hung" and a new election is necessary, then the Tories would have a huge advantage because they're basically the only party that can afford to run general election campaigns in a year. Is this true or were they being hyperbolic?

Untrue: in the event of a second election the Unions can (and indeed will) pump Labour full of cash.

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Fyck. Hopefully it's wrong (as they have been in the past). Urgh.

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Regarding 1992 comparisons, the exit polls were actually wrong that year. I point his out as a pedant.

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Any chance this is wrong?

It's possible: they have been wrong before and sometimes massively. Of course (alas) they are sometimes also right. We have to wait.

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Nuneaton isn't in the North.

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No those aren't exit poll results. They are projects based on the data from the exit poll.

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Be careful about jumping to conclusions.

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I would caution about taking the individual seat projections especially seriously. They might be right, but...

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Stop being dense everyone. UKIP will be 'surging' everywhere as they were not treated by the electorate as a serious option last time. Decent results for them in those constituencies were expected.

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Recount in Nuneaton, per BBC

I think that seat was about number 3 of the Tory held Labour targets.

No its about 38.

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I hate this election.

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It's all fine everyone because we've just held Easington.

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As per tradition, Lab hold Jarrow.

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Labour hold Rotherham

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Ynys Mon is held!

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Add the two UUP guys, who are Tories in all but name, and 8 DUP guys, who would support them, and you have it pretty safe.

Correct (ish) on the UUP, but the DUP are no friends of the Tories and will demand a price.

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Poor Al. Every single Shropshire constituency went Tory.

Unfortunately the Telford constituency includes Priorslee, which means that in a bad year it will always be vulnerable. It was only barely held in 2010.

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Because it's really not the sort of place it used to be.